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PEP 480: Resolve unreferenced footnotes (#3238)
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PEP: 480
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Title: Surviving a Compromise of PyPI: End-to-end signing of packages
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Version: $Revision$
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Last-Modified: $Date$
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Author: Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy <karthik@trishank.com>,
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Vladimir Diaz <vladimir.diaz@nyu.edu>,
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Justin Cappos <jcappos@nyu.edu>, Marina Moore <mm9693@nyu.edu>
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the minimum security model, which supports continuous delivery of projects and
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uses online cryptographic keys to sign the distributions uploaded by
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developers. Although the minimum security model guards against most attacks on
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software updaters [5]_ [7]_, such as mix-and-match and extraneous dependencies
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software updaters [5]_ [6]_, such as mix-and-match and extraneous dependencies
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attacks, it can be improved to support end-to-end signing and to prohibit
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forged distributions in the event that PyPI is compromised.
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interpreters and cannot have dependencies that have to be compiled (i.e., the
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PyPI+TUF integration MUST NOT require compilation of C extensions in order to
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verify cryptographic signatures). Verification of signatures MUST be done in
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Python, and verifying RSA [11]_ signatures in pure-Python may be impractical due
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Python, and verifying RSA [8]_ signatures in pure-Python may be impractical due
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to speed. Therefore, PyPI MAY use the `Ed25519`__ signature scheme.
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__ http://ed25519.cr.yp.to/
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Ed25519 [12]_ is a public-key signature system that uses small cryptographic
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Ed25519 [9]_ is a public-key signature system that uses small cryptographic
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signatures and keys. A `pure-Python implementation`__ of the Ed25519 signature
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scheme is available. Verification of Ed25519 signatures is fast even when
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performed in Python.
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Table 1: Attacks that are possible by compromising certain combinations of role
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keys. In `September 2013`__, it was shown how the latest version (at the time)
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of pip was susceptible to these attacks and how TUF could protect users against
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them [8]_. Roles signed by offline keys are in **bold**.
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them [7]_. Roles signed by offline keys are in **bold**.
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__ https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-September/022755.html
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.. [2] https://theupdateframework.io/papers/survivable-key-compromise-ccs2010.pdf
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.. [3] https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf/blob/develop/docs/tuf-spec.txt
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.. [4] https://packaging.python.org/glossary
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.. [3] https://theupdateframework.github.io/specification/latest/index.html
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.. [4] https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/glossary/
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.. [5] https://github.com/theupdateframework/pip/wiki/Attacks-on-software-repositories
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.. [6] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-September/022773.html
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.. [7] https://theupdateframework.io/papers/attacks-on-package-managers-ccs2008.pdf
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.. [8] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-September/022755.html
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.. [9] https://pypi.python.org/security
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.. [10] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-August/022154.html
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.. [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_%28algorithm%29
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.. [12] http://ed25519.cr.yp.to/
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.. [6] https://theupdateframework.io/papers/attacks-on-package-managers-ccs2008.pdf
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.. [7] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-September/022755.html
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.. [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)
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.. [9] https://ed25519.cr.yp.to/
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